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  • Shall Typho vent, with slingstone-showers red-hot,

    Prometheus Bound 2002

  • Shall Typho vent, with slingstone-showers red-hot,

    Prometheus Bound 2002

  • He™d carefully avoided Gareth thus far, afraid the Knight might find out whose slingstone nearly killed him.

    Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001

  • Juan Pizarro and the cavalry broke out of Cusco, circled around and attacked the Inca in Sacsayhuaman (during the attack Juan was killed by a slingstone).

    Exploring the Inca Heartland: Cusco and Nearby Sites 1999

  • Both above and below, the enemy seemed to have sat down to wait, not even hurling the occasional arrow or slingstone at a venture into the rocks where Conan's band lay hidden.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • The slingstone struck a Transformed in the knee, hard enough to leave it limping.

    Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988

  • One of the sitting men fell over, ribs crushed and heart stopped by a slingstone.

    Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988

  • Pummairam's spent slingstone clattered over the cobbles.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • And one whose slingstone was so unerring that the missile was kept separate in Urkut's waistpouch, was definitely magical.

    The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981

  • And this time Boerab had found a magnificent cock pheasant quivering beside the slingstone, and Urkut had sagaciously denied any miraculous powers while putting his slingstone away.

    The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981

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